By Stacy L. Cohen Whoever said you can never go home again hasn't met Todd Dickey. After graduating from University of Southe...
Securities
Fenwick & West SAVVY SAVI BUYS ITSELF BACK FROM RAYTHEON Employees of Savi Technology, a Mountain View company that makes...
By Stephen M. Murphy Plaintiffs' medical malpractice lawyers in California are nuts. How else to explain why they would take ...
Law Practice
Defendant Denies He Acted as Unlicensed Attorney
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - A Santa Ana man charged with posing as a lawyer and bilking unknowing clients out of thousands of dollars in lega...
By Daniel Shaw The issue of multidisciplinary practice is hot these days. Too hot, it turns out, for the American Bar Associa...
By John Petrovich and Ned Sherman Founders of technology start-up companies commonly ask counsel what the entrepreneurs can d...
By Patrick O'Donnell For decades, California attorneys have complained that the dazzling variety of inconsistent local court ...
Large Firms
Firm Watch: San Francisco Outpost Opens With Two Laterals -- New Benefits Include More Pay, Mortgage Help -- S.F. Office Gains Land Use Expertise -- Labor Specialist Joins S.F. Office -- Employee Benefits Lawyer Fills a Void -- Air Quality Expert Joins...
By Pearl Piatt, Leslie Gordon & J. Byrd
The bar is still dominated by shortsightedness and self-interest. Spotting change there is like watching a glacier move. Vern...
By Richard S. Rosenberg When the California Industrial Welfare Commission scuttled the state's daily overtime requirement for...
^^Construction Law^^ By Bernard S. Kamine In an unusual procedure, the California Supreme Court ordered published the appella...
Consumer Affairs Plaintiffs' attorneys hope to further their image as protectors of the people by promoting new laws that wou...
What does Daniel Feldman , an associate in the finance and infrastructure group at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster , ...
By Leslie A. Gordon Bob Sherry is an opportunist - in the best sense of the word. A partner at McKenna & Cuneo in San Fra...
In a demonstration endorsed by the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Association, several dozen protesters Friday again ca...
Government
Alioto Escalates Court Fight With Ex-Colleague, Mulls Mayoral Race
By John Roemer
SAN FRANCISCO - Angela Alioto's lives as a San Francisco practitioner and political candidate crossed last week when she file...
SAN DIEGO - Numerous legal issues are raised by a $2.6 million claim filed against the county of San Diego by the widow of sl...
Nearly three years after voters endorsed the compassionate use of marijuana to ease suffering among the medically ill in Cali...
Labor/Employment
Orange County Pays $1M So Far Due to Cop Dubbed 'The Seducer'
By Jason Armstrong & Sean Windle
SANTA ANA - One woman said she was pinned to a wall and groped and kissed against her will. Another said she was discouraged ...
Upon graduating from Hastings College of the Law in 1980, James I. Stang carefully surveyed his options. He turned down an of...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Making Equality a Reality Is Key for Bar Leader
By Daniel Shaw
PHILADELPHIA - On one of her last days as president of the National Bar Association, Beverly McQueary Smith was still anxious...
SAN FRANCISCO - The beating death two years ago of a German shepherd puppy could send a convicted child molester to prison fo...
Attempting to put an end to one of the largest civil cases in the history of the Los Angeles Superior Court, a judge has take...
Construction
Justices Bar Bad-Faith Suits Against Surety Companies
By Philip Carrizosa
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court barred bad-faith suits against surety companies Thursday, throwing out a suit th...
By Vincent J. O'Neill Jr. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Lilly v. Virginia , 1999 Daily Journal D.A.R. 5782 (June ...
The following is the major portion of a speech the author presented at the White House July 20 for President Clinton's call t...
DENVER - A proposal to create a law for all states governing computer data was approved overwhelmingly Thursday by the Nation...
By Patti S. Kitching I like oral argument. As an attorney, I enjoyed the opportunity to make sure the judge understood my leg...
SAN DIEGO - A whistle-blower lawsuit that alleges fraud and falsification of medical records by two Encinitas companies that ...
Stephen L. Cooley, head deputy of the Los Angeles County district attorney's welfare fraud unit, is the first anticipated can...
Appellate Practice
Attorneys, Judges Urge Use of Unpublished Rulings
By Pamela Mac Lean
A majority of lawyers and judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judicial Conference have urged that attorneys be al...